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Reading by Amy Weldon, "Three Elizabeths: An Imagining"

Sponsored by Ylvisaker Fund for Faculty Development & Paideia Program

Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013

Time: 7:00 pm

Location: F.W. Olin Building, Room 102

This creative-nonfiction project examines and intuits connections among the lives ofthreeyoung women born in the 1920s South. Two –ElizabethHardwick of Kentucky andElizabethSpencer of Mississippi – would go on to become famous writers, while the third –ElizabethWeldon Collier Williams – would become the protagonist in her own unique story. Pushing the limits of biography and memoir,ThreeElizabeths explores how very different Southern women can be united by the common threads of family, femininity, and home, even as their dreams carry them beyond the South to California, New York, Italy, and beyond.

Work on this project was supported by the Ylvisaker Fund for Faculty Development and the Paideia Program.